One has lived long enough if one has had time to win the love of women and the esteem of men. - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Le ridicule qu’on a augmente toujours en proportion qu’on s’en défend.

Man enjoys the happiness he feels, woman the happiness she gives. This difference, so essential and yet so seldom noticed, has a marked difference on the whole of their respective behaviour. A man's pleasure is to satisfy desires, a woman's is chiefly to arouse them.

Une occasion manquée se retrouve, tandis qu’on ne revient jamais d’une démarche précipitée.